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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, before the strike, the PSC had in addition approved payment of extraneous allowance for health workers ranging from Kshs5,000 for theatre support personnel to Kshs40,000 per month for doctors handling policy and co-ordination. What was remaining was funding from the Treasury. The Treasury has now approved funds for improvement of terms and conditions of service for health workers as follows: Kshs200 million for training has been availed. Also, Kshs1.9 billion for payment of extraneous allowances on phase one with effect from December, 2011 has been availed by the Treasury. A further Kshs5.2 billion for payment of extraneous allowance on Phase II with effect from July, 2012 has been availed and agreed upon."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, further to that, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance has availed Kshs113 million for implementation of delayed promotions agreed two years ago, and recruitment of additional 607 middle level health workers have also been agreed. Upgrading of 2,300 health workers has also been approved by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance. Employment of further 200 medical officers has been agreed by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in spite of this, the representatives of KPPDU have indicated that they will continue with the strike. Post-graduate students who are employees of the two health Ministries, and are training at the Kenya National Hospital (KNH), and Moi Referral Hospital are entitled to continue drawing their salaries. This is subject to clearance to pursue training by the parent Ministry and the Ministry of State for Public Service, which gives course approvals."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, clearance to pursue training is necessary to ensure an orderly training programme, rationalization with the training budget and continuation of service delivery. Postgraduate students who have followed this procedure are drawing salaries which they are entitled to as per the service regulations. Post-graduate students pursuing training at KNH and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital fall under these two categories as follows: Those who are not employees of the Ministry before starting the training, former employees of the Ministry who resigned or deserted duties to pursue the training, the Government is not responsible for paying salaries to either category as they are not Government employees. Resignation from the Civil Service follows an employee’s moral obligation or private choice and does not attract terminal benefits. The Ministry is not privy to any morality issue obligated to the Director of Medical Services or his assistants to resign. On the contrary, the Ministry regards the Director of Medical Services as an exemplary performer. His insistence on high performance standards by doctors and strict enforcement of service regulations may, perhaps, be the reason the petitioners want him out of the office. Some of the petitioners may also be targeting the Director of Medical Services and his team for deploying them in areas they consider remote and unattractive. It is the duty of the Director of Medical Services to deploy doctors to all parts of the country as per their needs."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, the Ministry proposed and lobbied for the creation of a Health Service Commission in the run-up to the enactment of the Constitution of Kenya. However, the proposals were rejected by the drafters and Kenyans. Service commissions are enshrined in the Constitution and to create one for the health sector requires a constitutional amendment. In this regard, as a Ministry, we believe that a Health Service Commission is desirable to address the unique needs of the health workers. However, this is a matter that is beyond the Ministry’s ability to occasion on our own. It requires the involvement of various stakeholders and the goodwill of Kenyans. In this respect, I do seek support from the House to ensure that the Health Service Commission is realized."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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"content": " Hon. Members, we will take five clarifications starting with the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Health and then followed by Dr. Eseli, hon. M.M. Ali, Dr. Khalwale and hon. Yakub."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, you have heard the Assistant Minister suggesting, in his Statement, that the Abuja Declaration which this Government is signatory to is not achievable in any near future. Could he confirm that the Government is ill-prepared or not prepared at all to give sufficient allocation and funding to address the concerns of the doctors so that we are obedient in meeting regional and global agreements; where we agreed and signed that we shall allocate sufficient money, up to the tune of 15 per cent of our Budget? Other than giving us a blanket allocation from the Treasury of Kshs1.9 billion, could the Assistant Minister come out clearly and tell us--- Since the doctors are on strike, could their concerns be addressed? What has the Assistant Minister done to change the pay of a doctor from Kshs30,000? Can you indicate to what level you have changed that pay, is it Kshs100,000 or Kshs200,000? The Assistant Minister has talked about Kshs1.9 billion, but what has he done to an individual doctor?"
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I sat listening to the Assistant Minister with a very sad heart. His combative mood showed that the doctors are up against a hard rock. From his tone of address, it shows that he is not really interested in amicably solving the problem. He even showed the callous nature of the Ministry by insinuating that no patient has died and yet people are not going to hospital because there are no doctors, so, they could be dying at home. The Assistant Minister is not aware even of those who have died at home. That is the callous nature of this Ministry. He has even suggested that the personnel being produced in the country are very many and that the Ministry is unable to absorb them. With the patient/doctor ratio in the country very poor as it is, is this Assistant Minister in order to say such things? That just confirms the callousness of this Ministry."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Ministry has studiously privatized health care so that people end up in the private institutions instead of public hospitals and the poor who end up in public hospitals end up suffering. The Assistant Minister has said that the Treasury has agreed to avail some money from July, 2012. Is that available or is that a wish list? That is a wish list. How can the Assistant Minister tell us that this money will be available in 2012, and yet we do not have any concrete evidence of the availability of that money? How much money has he offered each doctor? Could the Assistant Minister itemize how much additional each doctor is going to get from what he has proposed? How many equipment is he putting in each hospital? Where and when will he put that equipment? That is what the doctors are striking about. They are not striking to listen to his hardnosed statements here."
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